Plenty of events planned for Halloween weekend

A busy weekend of parades, parties, trick-or-treating, haunted houses and other local Halloween events kicks off tonight. Here’s a roundup of what’s happening.

The Leader

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Posted Oct. 28, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Updated Oct 28, 2010 at 8:08 AM

Posted Oct. 28, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Updated Oct 28, 2010 at 8:08 AM

A busy weekend of parades, parties, trick-or-treating, haunted houses and other local Halloween events kicks off tonight. Here’s a roundup of what’s happening.

Kid-friendly Halloween events

• Painted Post’s annual Halloween Parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. today at the Indian statue in Village Square. The Corning West marching band will lead the parade – open to all children – through the village to Craig Park, where there will be a costume judging contest with prizes in various age groups. Afterward, donuts and cider will be served.

• The Southeast Steuben County Library in downtown Corning will host “Boo Fest,” a costume party with stories, games, crafts and a parade through the library’s book stacks, at 3:30 p.m. Friday.

• Smithome Farms on State Route 352 in Big Flats - near Big Flats Community Park - will offer a pumpkin patch, hay rides and a corn maze from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For details, call 562-3878.

• Corning’s Benjamin Patterson Inn will host haunted tours of the museum and its grounds from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday. The Inn is located at 59 W. Pulteney St. The event, sponsored by the Corning-Painted Post Historical Society, is free and appropriate for all ages. For details, call 937-5281.

• The Great Pumpkin Hunt will be held from 7-9 p.m. Saturday in Corning.

The event will feature 100 pumpkins, stashed on public land at various locations throughout the city. Clues are being printed all week in The Leader. Each pumpkin found can be redeemed for candy and other goodies during a Halloween party, also from 7-9 p.m. Saturday, at the Nasser Civic Center Arena. One of the pumpkins - the Great Pumpkin - will be worth $100 in cash.

Saturday’s party will include costume judging, a Monster Mash dance contest, a “Nightmare on Pearl Street” haunted house, game booths, a hay pit full of prizes, and free refreshments. For details, call 962-0340, Ext. 7.

Trick-or-treating

• Saturday

Village of Bath | 6-8 p.m.

Town of Campbell | 5-8 p.m.

Town of Catlin | 6-8 p.m.

City of Corning | 3-5 p.m. at Market Street businesses displaying green and white windsocks. There are 13 businesses participating.

• Sunday

City of Corning | No set hours.

Village of Painted Post | 6-8 p.m.

Town of Pulteney | 6-8 p.m.

Village of Savona | 6-8 p.m.

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Town of Erwin | 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Arnot Mall | 4-6 p.m. at businesses displaying an orange sign with a pumpkin. Most of the mall’s 100-plus businesses are participating.

Town of Horseheads | 5:30-8 p.m.

Village of Horseheads | 5:30-8 p.m.

Watkins Glen | 6-8 p.m.

City of Elmira | 5:30-8 p.m.

Haunted houses

• John and Apryl Clary’s Barn of Terror, a haunted house in Hornby, will be open from 7-10 p.m. Saturday. It’s the last house on the left on Kerrick Hollow Road, a left turn off State Route 414 north of Corning. Admission is free, donations are accepted. For details, go to http://www.freewebs.com/barnofterror or call 962-7407.

• Keith Hoover’s Kingsbury Cemetery, a low-gore haunted house located at 180 Kingsbury Cemetery on Corning’s Northside, will be open from 7-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. This year’s theme is “A Birds-Eye View.” It’s free, but visitors are asked to bring two non-perishable food items for the Corning Food Pantry. For details, go to www.kingsburycemetery.com

• “Tagsylvania” will be open from 7-11 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Tag’s, located on State Route 352 in Big Flats. There are three attractions: A sociopath’s home called “Lector’s Lair,” a foggy flashlight walk called “Psycho Swamp,” and a zombie-shooting paintball range called “Zig Zag Zombies.” A pass for all three attractions is $20 in advance and $25 at the gate. For details, call (800) 650-TAGS.

• Bradley Farms, located at 1543 Maple Ave. in Southport, just outside Elmira, will be open from 7-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It boasts a trio of spooky attractions: The 15,000-square-foot haunted house called “House of Lost Souls”; a haunted corn maze walk called “Cornstalkers’ Maze of Misery”; and a train ride through the fields and woods called “Trail of Terror.” The attractions are $8 apiece or $20 for all three. For details, call 732-0561.